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Hey everyone, it’s time for the Big Reveal (finally)! Sorry it took awhile to get this video loaded and up on the site. I want to thank everyone again that participated in my first ever giveaway. Thank you so much to LDSLiving Magazine for sponsoring this giveaway, and congratulations to our three winners! Watch the video for the … Continue reading →

Only five more days until the 184th Semiannual General Conference! In preparation, today’s inspirational message is about mountains, trials, despair and prayer. I have a story to tell, and there’s a sweet new song you’re gonna wanna hear.

It’s been one year this month since Daughter A. returned home early from her full-time LDS mission after serving for seven wonderful months. She loved her mission, and her mission loved her. Continue reading →

Growing up in Utah, I have spent a lot of time living up, down, in, on and around mountains. My family and I have made our home on the side of a beautiful mountain overlooking a valley with the Great Salt Lake in the distance. The disadvantage of living on a mountain is the extra effort it takes to climb … Continue reading →

It’s March already. How did that happen? I’ve been MIA; operating in such a fog for so many weeks and months I’ve lost all sense of time and place. Just managing to get up each day, dress, go to work, fulfill my volunteer service each week, care for my family and fall back into bed … Continue reading →

When you are in the middle of a medical crises, two weeks can disappear before you know it, and at the very same time feel endless. So, here I am, 2 weeks/”one year later” putting in an update. Happy New Year, everyone. I’m hoping that 2014 brings good things for all of us! Since “Dreaming … Continue reading →

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were hospital days #46 & #47 respectively, for Daughter A. There’s nothing we wanted more than a “Christmas miracle”. We prayed, and pleaded with God. I dreamed she would suddenly rise from her bed and walk, fully healed and whole, able to come home. When I ‘woke’, we simply prayed … Continue reading →

As Mr. MoSop started up the engine and the two of us slowly drove away from the hospital we sunk into a bone-tired and soul-weary silence. I turned on the radio just in time to hear an excited radio personality announcing that “this next song has become a new ‘listener favorite’ here!”. When the lively jazz tune began, I immediately recognized the vocalist as my very own dear friend Alex Boyé! Continue reading →

On the day after Thanksgiving, Salt Lake City welcomes the Christmas season in with light! Attending the lighting of Temple Square is a family tradition for thousands. We have gone many times in the past to the first night, but now we prefer to wait a few days (and we always especially love to go … Continue reading →

One day a year citizens of the United States formally give Thanks for our country. It was originally set apart as a day to honor our national freedoms – in particular those settlers who crossed the sea at great peril in search of Religious Freedom. Today, it’s mainly become a day of gathering together with … Continue reading →

It’s hospital Day 18 for Daughter-A. She will be spending tomorrow’s Thanksgiving holiday in her wheelchair looking at the same walls and halls of the Neuro Rehab unit she’s looked at for the past two weeks. It’s been exactly 3 weeks today that she suddenly lost the use of her legs. Since Monday of this … Continue reading →

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